Euthanasia to be granted for people who feel they have 'completed' life

People who feel they have “completed life” will soon be able to get help with assisted dying after the controversial decision was made.
In 2002, the Netherlands made history by becoming the first country to legalise euthanasia, but anyone seeking such an end would need to be suffering unbearable pain with no hope of a cure.
Health and justice ministers wrote in a letter to parliament this week details remained to be worked out but that people who "have a well-considered opinion that their life is complete, must, under strict and careful criteria, be allowed to finish that life in a... read more

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